Archive for August, 2009

Sometimes fish just don’t want to play the game. No matter how hard you try your tested and proven offerings they fail. This was the case at Somerset Dam recently. I had located bass and tried all the proven techniques on these deep schooling fish but they just weren’t cooperating. The most successful lure for …

To follow on from the success of the MF40, I’ve been working on two larger models, the MF50 and MF60. It has taken many hours in the workshop, to perfect the swim and dive action of these lures. A couple of weeks ago, I finally had a handful of both the MF 50 and 60s …

Trout season opening 2009. The first weekend in August marks the start of the brown trout season in Tasmania. Most lakes and rivers are open to anglers for the first time since the start of May, with hungry trout waiting the opening is always highly anticipated. I headed up to the central highlands for the …

Fishing deep is one of the most reliable tournament methods to consistently fill the live well during the cold winter months, especially in Victoria. When I first started fishing bream tournaments, casting light weight plastics in either a worm or minnow patterns was the way to catch fish. During social sessions catching fish amongst the …

For regular readers of the blog, you will know that we are constantly pushing the US to develop new and unique colour mixes that better suit our Australian species, techniques and conditions. To that end, almost half of our Gulp baits range colours are unique to Australia and not available anywhere else in the world. …